The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! š
devynreadsnovels's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Xenophobia, Bullying, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Racism, Violence, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Outing, Body horror, Blood, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, and Racial slurs
toonyballoony's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Cursing, Medical content, Mental illness, and Gore
As a real tale of growing up as a minority in the 90s, the casual racism, ableism, and queer phobia is much more explicit in its outdated insults and slurs. Their inclusion feels important to justify the impact on the authorās internal journey, but brace yourself accordingly.chronicallybookish's review
emotional
fast-paced
<i>Special thanks to FierceReads and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.</i>
I donāt rate memoirs. To me, there is something deeply uncomfortable about assigning a numerical value to a book that someone wrote about themself, their life, their experiences. Who am I to judge what they went through or how they chose to portray it? Sure I could get nitpicky on sentence structure and writing craft or in this case illustration, but a book is more than that, so I simply give memoirs no rating at all.
I think this was an impactful, important book. I think itās going to mean so much to so many people, and I am so glad that it exists. Iām glad I read it, though it made me feel ill to read about some of the things that the author experienced.
I was a little uncomfortable with how many slurs were used, repeatedly. I understand that this is a memoir, set in the 90s, and these things were really said to the author, but Iām not sure how I feel about them repeating them directly, even if it was condemned in text. Many of these slurs were not this authorās to reclaim. The use of slurs is complicated, and I understand the point that they were trying to make, and Iām not even sure it was wrong of them to use these slurs in their memoir. Iām kind of confused on what the āright thingā is when it comes to that sort of thing, if there is one at all, but I did think it important to just, point out, especially since slurs can be very triggering to read, and basically every slur you can think of (except the N word) is used in this book, including ones Iāve never even heard of before.
That said, I do recommend this book. I think everyone should read it, if they are in a place to do so.
I donāt rate memoirs. To me, there is something deeply uncomfortable about assigning a numerical value to a book that someone wrote about themself, their life, their experiences. Who am I to judge what they went through or how they chose to portray it? Sure I could get nitpicky on sentence structure and writing craft or in this case illustration, but a book is more than that, so I simply give memoirs no rating at all.
I think this was an impactful, important book. I think itās going to mean so much to so many people, and I am so glad that it exists. Iām glad I read it, though it made me feel ill to read about some of the things that the author experienced.
I was a little uncomfortable with how many slurs were used, repeatedly. I understand that this is a memoir, set in the 90s, and these things were really said to the author, but Iām not sure how I feel about them repeating them directly, even if it was condemned in text. Many of these slurs were not this authorās to reclaim. The use of slurs is complicated, and I understand the point that they were trying to make, and Iām not even sure it was wrong of them to use these slurs in their memoir. Iām kind of confused on what the āright thingā is when it comes to that sort of thing, if there is one at all, but I did think it important to just, point out, especially since slurs can be very triggering to read, and basically every slur you can think of (except the N word) is used in this book, including ones Iāve never even heard of before.
That said, I do recommend this book. I think everyone should read it, if they are in a place to do so.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Xenophobia, Ableism, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Racial slurs
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